2007/12/29, Paul Wise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi all, > > Does anyone know what is holding the Ubuntu icedtea package out of > Debian? Are the licence issues still a problem? I see there is some > packaging in SVN.
I don't know how is working on icedtea/openjdk on Debian but AFAIK, there are a lot of licenses and they must be all analysed. > I'm watching the Lenny freeze slowly approaching and wondering if > Debian will see OpenJDK/IcedTea packages early enough for all those > contrib Java-based packages to move to main. Icedtea/OpenJDK will only solve the move to main for x86 and x64 arches. There is a port from Gary Benson on PowerPC (only in interpreter mode at the moment and it's barely usable for applications like eclipse) but AFAIK Icedtea/OpenJDK will not run on other arches (maybe it can run on sparc but I'm not sure). > Also, is icedtea appropriate to have in a stable release, or should > only OpenJDK be in stable? > > http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2007-December/000810.html Icedtea == OpenJDK but built entirely with free software. OpenJDK is a work in progress, so it's not as stable as JDK6. > In any case it would be nice to have IcedTea in experimental at least. IceTea/OpenJDK will not break anything, it could be in unstable. -- Arnaud Vandyck -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
